Psalm 3 from The Book of Common Celebrity Prayer “The lure of celebrity is so great among teenagers that almost one in 10 would abandon their education if they had the chance to appear on television.” The Independent, January 13, 2006 Oh, slip me between the clean sheets of fame, cast me in crystal, televise…
Britney Spears has just been named the worst-dressed celebrity for dressing like an “over-the-hill Lolita”. She is sixteen going on thirteen, in a tight school uniform dressed to kill. Pigtails pulled tight she is dancing, dancing like she wants to be dirty, is enjoying the old men’s thrill. Soon she will be wallowing deep in…
Written to mark the moment when unknown office temp and model, Chantelle Houghton, convinced her Celebrity Big Brother co-contestants that she really was famous. Welcome to the ghost game of celebrity, the trick-or-treat vision of fame. Welcome to the hope that money and power will quickly devour the shame. Welcome to the restless world of…
Edward Bernays, the ” Father of Modern public relations” wrote that “The public’s ability to create its own heroes from wisps of impressions and its own imagination, and to build them almost into flesh and blood gods, fascinates me.” I had the same feeling about TV producers’ creativity when watching the cheap Battenberg cake of…
for Charles Kennedy who, at the time of writing, is still leader of the Liberal Democrats. The drunker the drinker the slower the thinker, the less that gets done in the chamber. The drinker who’s drunker gets less chance to tinker, fiddling instead with liquids of amber and lies that are swallowed hook line and…
The trouble with bad news Basking in the glow of potential good news is something to be avoided unless you are familiar with the facts The scene at the Virginia coal mine was like an episode of The Simpsons with Governor Joe Manchin becoming the real life portrayal of bumbling Mayor Quimby. http://media.guardian.co.uk/marketingandpr/comment/0,7494,1678389,00.html
When will Chelsea FC stop shooting itself in the foot? For a team that is virtually unbeatable on the pitch, Chelsea are remarkably poor at defending themselves off it. I ought to be celebrating, after the football team I’ve supported since I was a small boy beat Arsenal at Highbury on Sunday.
Advice for wannabe celebrities Kiss and tell all, it keeps the world turning if the love in your heart is burning, burning. The world is your oyster and the press wants your pearls – especially if you’ve slept with hundreds of girls. Kiss and tell all if you’ve slept with a royal. Diana’s dead, there’s…
Robbie Williams has been warned by an obsessive fan not to travel to Berlin in case he is abducted by aliens. Robbie took off in a beam of light as the encore of Angels began and all Robbie’s fans got such a fright that a thousand lighters burned a thousand hands but Robbie didn’t blink…
Going face to face with Ant and Dec on prime time telly can only be a good thing for the royals Whisper it quietly in the corridors of Buck House and Balmoral, but there are definite signs that the royal family is edging its way into the 21st century. I know, I know, they’ve been…